A nonet is a 9-line poem. Like haiku, each line has a specific number of syllables, starting with nine in the first line and ending with only one in the last.

Here's a creative and engaging activity to get your child on track with that pesky little line.

Paying attention to headers and subheaders is a great way to orient your child to the text they're tackling. Here's how:

Most of us are familiar with haiku, but the tanka is an even older form of Japanese poetry. Learn to write a tanka poem with this activity.

Help your child create an autumn poem full of colorful sensory details.

Show your child how to write a diamante poem, which makes use of a simple structure and results in a diamond-shaped poem.

Help your third grader author a lovely limerick in honor of Valentine's Day! He'll be delighted to compose and recite this nonsensical poem.

Thanksgiving dinner can be filled with fun and memorable interactions between family members. This holiday, why not memorialize some of those details and events with a family poem? You can create a lasting memory in the form of a poem with contributions f

Does your child love to play with their food? Then they'll get a big kick out of this activity, where they'll practice handwriting skills...using rice.

Writing a book about a favorite trip can be fun, rewarding and a great way to practice organizational, thinking, and communication skills.

Start by writing an acrostic poem, but then get ready for a writing challenge that makes an acrostic trickier to write.

Write a poem with a twist! Your child can write a poem that also has a secret sentence hidden within the words of the poem.

This fun writing activity takes a regular task - writing a story - and transforms it into a collaborative writing experience for hilarious results!

Looking for a simple, yet unique writing activity for your child on Valentine's Day? Try a hand at haiku!

Take advantage of the upcoming Irish holiday, Saint Patrick's Day, to encourage your third grader to flex his poetry muscles and come up with a haiku.

Let your future scribe's imagination run wild! Children have a hard time understanding fact versus fiction, and writing a tall tale can help.

Practice rhythm and rhyme with these step-by-step instructions for a pantoum poem!

Anyone can write Dad a card for Father's Day; but for the dad who loves sports, get the family to write him a special haiku on a basketball instead!

Teach your kindergartener or first grader about the art of correspondence by guiding them to create their own postcards out of favorite family photographs.

Write a letter to Santa and bring back the lost art of letter writing. Learn how to write a carefully crafted wishlist using proper letter form.

In this writing activity, let your child reflect on the past and practice their writing skills and word usage as they create an "I Used to, Now I" poem.

This simple fall-themed syllable game is a great way to introduce the concept of a syllable to your young learner.

Mad Libs are fun but they're even better when your fourth grader gets to make the story himself!

Help your child put a new spin on her favorite myth by turning it into a mad lib! Guaranteed to bring the giggles, this fun activity also packs in the learning.

With a newspaper, highlighter, and some fun extra prizes, you can help your first grader start lifetime reading habits with print all around us.

Your spotlight-loving third or fourth grader will be delighted to play this improvisational game of freeze theater with family or friends.

Help your fourth grader make a homemade recipe book that's eye-catching, simple to construct and perfect for holding all of her favorite recipes!

In this activity, your first grader will practice calendar skills, observe the weather and learns to read calendar words. Here's how to get started:

With nothing more than a flat open space and some lively kids, you can reinforce key concepts of punctuation while having lots of healthy laughs.

Need help teaching your child to sequence and organize information? Creating this graphic organizer will help your child see what happened before and after.